récamier
\ʁe.ka.mje\
The verdict
“récamier” is uncommon French (frequency #64,066 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,066
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Méridienne, divan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recamier · récamier · French
récamier · rank #64,066 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,066
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réaux
Nearest frequency peer: réaux (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « récamier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réactives
réactives
35,938 corpus weight
- réaliserait
réaliserait
35,937 corpus weight
- réaux
réaux
35,936 corpus weight
- récamier
récamier
35,935 corpus weight
- réceptionné
réceptionné
35,934 corpus weight
- récupératio…
récupérations
35,933 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « récamier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | récamier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.ka.mje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « récamier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
récamier is uncommon French at frequency #64,066 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁe.ka.mje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Méridienne, divan.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for récamier, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is récamier, spelled R-É-C-A-M-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Méridienne, divan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how récamier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son mode de vie détermina un style, le style Récamier, qui influença le mobilier et que l'on appréciait surtout dans le confort d'un récamier, un fauteuil dans lequel on fait agréablement la conversation.
Pas besoin de Freud et d'un récamier en cuir capitonné. Une étude sommaire de la famille de ce dernier brossait un portrait on ne peut plus évident.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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